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Akademi

Akademi proper noun: (an) Academy, a specific society of scholars or artists.

Proper noun

Akademi (uncountable)

  1. (India, chiefly compounds) (an) Academy, a specific society of scholars or artists.
    • R. K. Narayan was the first Sahitya Akademi Award winner.

Origin of Akademi

Essentially a re-borrowing of English academy through the phonetic/orthographic systems of Indian languages (particularly Hindi अकादमी (akādmī), Odia ଅକାଦମୀ (akādami) / ଅକାଦେମି (akādemi) / ଆକାଦେମୀ (ākādemi) and Punjabi ਅਕਾਦਮੀ (akādmī).

Questions about Akademi

What does Akademi mean?
Akademi means (an) Academy, a specific society of scholars or artists.
What part of speech is Akademi?
Akademi is a proper noun.

Words near Akademi in the dictionary

  1. Akabah
  2. Akabane
  3. Akabea
  4. akabeko
  5. Akademeia
  6. Akademi
  7. Akademos
  8. akaganeite
  9. akaganeites
  10. akaganéite
  11. akaganéites

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